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Raul Ries: God's Holy Spirit must be grieved and God must be brokenhearted when he sees what's going on in the world today. This is the heart of God in this chapter. God looks down and he is grieved. His heart is broken. He can't believe when he created man for his purpose to worship God, how they've gone totally away from God. This generation that he's going to destroy in a minute.

Guest (Male): I am falling in love. I am falling in love. I am falling in love. I am falling in love with you. Welcome to Somebody Loves You Radio, the Bible teaching ministry of Raul Ries in Diamond Bar, California. Continuing our study of heaven, hell, and the spiritual realm, Raul will urge us to live wholeheartedly for God, not allowing the world's sin and twisted values to influence our pursuit of righteousness. Stay with us to consider the fallout of demonic affiliations and widespread rebellion in Noah's day. We'll get a reminder that God is all-knowing, and he calls us to obedience. Here is Raul Ries in Genesis Chapter 6.

Raul Ries: We want to look at the first fallen angels in the Bible. Now, you have to understand that we study concerning Lucifer and when he and his angels, one-third of the angels, got kicked out of heaven. Now, these angels, principalities, powers, and rulers of darkness, they're everywhere in the world, everywhere, oppressing, depressing, possessing all these things. But there are angels in the time before the flood that they are in Tartarus tonight, and they're in chains, chained up for what they did.

So what he does in the Old Testament, Moses writing in the Pentateuch, he takes us back to the book of Genesis, chapter 6, verse 1, as we open the scriptures. The first observation that I made here is that the population explosion, this is the first point. The population explosion, it begins in verse 1. Now, it came to pass, when men began to multiply on the face of the earth, and daughters were born to them. So there was a population explosion going on. And these daughters were born unto them.

Now you have to remember, this is the time where the world is extending and expanding their borders. At the same time, it is a very crucial time because during this time, there's a guy by the name of Noah that was living in the world. His name is "rest" in Hebrew. Before we see him in the Bible, here God begins to speak of the conditions of the world before God would bring his judgment upon the world, that he would judge the world. The way he would judge the world would be through a flood where only eight people in the world would be saved and almost 10 billion people drowned in the flood.

The judgment of God. God started a whole new generation of people because it was so bad in the world that God said, "You know what? I'm at the point that I am going to destroy the whole world." And he did it by a flood. The next time God destroys the earth is by fire. He's going to create a new heaven, a new earth. But as here now, Moses is speaking to our hearts, he says the first thing that he saw was a population explosion.

Verse 2, that the sons of God saw the daughters of men, that they were beautiful, and they took wives for themselves of all whom they chose. Notice that. Now, the sons of God here, in the book of Ezekiel, Ezekiel is called the son of man. The sons of God here are angelic beings. They're angels. Not angels that were in heaven; these are angels they were kicked out of heaven and were dwelling on the earth.

These sons of God, notice what it says here, they went ahead and they married these beautiful women they were on the earth. When God saw that, he knew that the world was perverted. Angelic beings marrying human beings, taking possession. Check this out. This is nothing, I mean, like you could ever imagine. Verse 3, when God saw it, look what he says in verse 3. And the Lord said, "My Spirit shall not always strive with man forever."

God was grieved. His Holy Spirit was grieved because of sin in the world. Think how God must feel today. It's really important that we understand that today. Back in the '50s and '60s when I went to high school, you never knew who was homosexual. Nobody would say it. Today, there is no shame. They put it on TV, they make movies, it's on radio talk shows, and people don't care at the mall. They hold hands, male with male, female with female, lesbianism.

Yet why is it that people don't see it? What gets to me is not the world. The world's totally perverted, corrupt. But it's when the church begins to become like the world. That people begin to want to be in the world and be in the church or be part of the kingdom of God. You can't be divided. I think it's one of the things that as I was reading and studying this chapter, that God really spoke to my heart because look what he says again.

He says, "And the Lord said, 'My Spirit will not always strive with man forever, for he indeed is flesh. His days will be 120 years.'" Bottom line: in 120 years, the flood will come. I wonder what the Holy Spirit feels like living in this world today when it's becoming grieved because of so much sin, not outside of the world, but in the church. We really need to take notice of our lives and examination to be convicted by the Holy Spirit.

Then check this out, verse 4. He says, "And there were giants on the earth in those days, and also afterwards, when the sons of God came into the daughters of men, they bore children to them. And those were the mighty men of old, men of renown." Now, in verse 4, the word "giants" here is the Hebrew word Nephilim. Nephilim means "fallen ones." He's talking about the demons having sex with these women, and these were their children. They were giants in the land.

Imagine the product that came out from woman having sex with an angel or a demon. Now, somebody will say, "Well, I thought you said that angels were sexless." Yes, good angels. Jesus said that. These evil angels were cohabiting and having sex with the women. The product of that, they produced a generation of demons and half-man and half-demon called giants, Nephilim. That's why God had to bring judgment upon the earth.

Think of all the pollution today, what's going on in the world with young people and other people concerning their sexual lives, the perversion, men with men, women with women, husband going out on his wife or wife on her husband, pornography in the homes of Christians. Perversion of the mind and the heart. Then how can people go to church after they've been watching those things or living the lifestyle and then worship God? When God says to Isaiah the prophet in chapter 1, he says, "You lift your hands up to me and your hands are full of blood. Put down your hands."

He says, "Don't be a hypocrite." That's not all the church. Sin is in the church, and the church, instead of going forward, we're going backward. We can't stand still. We have to go forward. We have to repent. We have to return back to our first love. Our children need to be taught for the future because of what's coming ahead in the next four years, the next eight years, or the next hundred years.

That's why when God saw this world and what was going on in the relationship between the women and these sons of God, and then the product when they had children, they were giants. It's interesting here that he uses the word giants for Nephilim in the Hebrew, "fallen ones." Verse 5, the second point, the wickedness of the world. Again, then the Lord saw that the wickedness of man was great in the earth, and that the intent and the thoughts of his heart was only evil continually. Does that sound like today? Sure it does.

Notice what he says again: the thoughts of his heart was only evil continually, not good. Evil. People love sin, and sin is fun only for a while. Then it comes to judgment. Then verse 6, and the Lord was sorry that he had made man on the earth, and he was grieved in his heart. It grieves the heart of God when he sees what's going on in the world. If that's the world, can you imagine how God feels when he looks at the church, his bride?

That his bride is not faithful to him. That his bride is actually becoming adulterous by the things that we do, by the things that we hear. So important to understand that God has chosen us for himself, and he's a jealous God. He will not share you with anybody. So the Lord said, "I will destroy man whom I have created from the face of the earth." Notice what he says there.

What the Lord is going to do in our present time is that the Lord is going to bring the Antichrist. The Antichrist, for seven years, he will bring the world into submission with Satan. He will give a mark on people's right hand or forehead. Nobody will be able to buy or sell, go to school, work, do whatever you want to do. You can't, unless you have the mark of the beast. Then after seven years, Christ will come back. He will judge every person that had the mark of the beast. He's going to judge them, take them, and cast them into the lake of fire. No mercy, no grace. He came in his love and grace and mercy the first time, but the second time, he's coming with his wrath and judgment. He's not playing games.

Guest (Male): You're listening to Somebody Loves You Radio with Raul Ries. Don't forget, we're committed to empowering you with biblical insights to fortify your faith and help you stand strong against spiritual attacks. Visit somebodylovesyou.com for resources, including Raul's "Heaven or Hell" series on CD or USB. Now back to the final part of our study, Fallen Angels From Heaven.

Raul Ries: And then look what he says again. So the Lord said, "I will destroy man whom I've created from the face of the earth, both man, beast, creeping things, birds of the air, for I am sorry that I have made them." God was grieved in his heart when he saw the condition of man. Now, if God sees everything and hears everything, can you imagine? He's omnipresent. He's everywhere at all times. You can't hide from God.

For me, it's something that I've always looked into my life. If God is in my presence all the time, then how can I get away with anything? I can't. I can't. If I do, guess what happens? Because I am a son or a daughter of God, you're going to get chastened by the Lord. If you don't get chastened, then you're not a daughter and a son of God.

That's why we have received the Holy Spirit in our hearts, in our lives, so that the Holy Spirit has come to convict the world of sin, righteousness, and of judgment. Of sin, because they don't believe in him. Of righteousness, by faith we receive Christ in our hearts. And of judgment, because the prince of this world, the devil, already has been judged. He's on a short leash. He's run out of time. The more he knows that he's running out of time, what's he going to do? He's going to try to get more people into hell.

In this generation, there are so many that are going to go to hell because of the knowledge. To much is given, much more will be required. Technology has come beyond our intellect. It's amazing what we see, what we hear, and what we do. God will judge us one day. On your telephones, little kids seven, eight years old watching pornography. What kind of a generation is that going to be?

It's really important that we understand the days we're living in. These were horrible days. The judgment of God was coming as the judgment of God will come here too. But it's not my timing; it's God's timing. God's Holy Spirit must be grieved and God must be brokenhearted when he sees what's going on in the world today. This is the heart of God in this chapter. God looks down and he is grieved. His heart is broken. He can't believe when he created man for his purpose to worship God, how they've gone totally away from God.

This generation that he's going to destroy in a minute, 120 years and the end will come. Look again, verse 7. And so the Lord said, "I will destroy man whom I've created from the face of the earth, both man, beast, creeping things, birds of the air, for I am sorry that I have made them." Verse 8, but Noah, here's one guy. But Noah, his name means "rest" in the Hebrew, found grace in the eyes of the Lord. Did you notice that?

Before the Law was ever given, he found grace in the eyes of the Lord, unmerited favor. Noah, that's before Moses and the Law was given. Grace of God upon one man, and one man had three sons, and they had three wives. And then Noah had his own wife. So there was total of eight people, eight people that God saw righteous in this earth.

Look what he says again, verse 9. He says, "This is the genealogy of Noah. Noah was a just man." Notice his characteristics: a complete man in his generation. And check this out, this is the most important: and Noah walked with God. He was in fellowship with God. Isn't that cool? In the midst of a corrupt world, there was one man that was walking with God in fellowship with God.

The world that he lived in never pulled him to the world. He made a decision: for me and my house, we're going to serve God. We're not going to compromise. We're not going to do what the rest of the world is doing. We are separating ourselves for the work of God and to fellowship with God and to do his will in whatever he wants me to do.

What was God's purpose and God's will for Noah? That Noah was going to build an ark. He and his sons. And that God would send a flood. 40 days and 40 nights it would rain, and the whole world would become covered with water. But Noah, his wife, and three sons and their wives would be spared from the flood. Why? Because of Noah's grace and because Noah walked with God.

Then verse 10, and Noah begot three sons: Shem, Ham, and Japheth. And the earth also, here again, and the earth also was corrupt before God. You know what the word "corrupt" means there? It's as an apple that is totally brown and it's rotten. You've seen apples like that; you throw them away. You don't eat them; you'll get sick. God was sick of this world. Like an apple that is rotten before God. Corrupt.

Notice, and the earth was filled with violence. Verse 12, and so God looked down upon the earth, see, he looked down on the earth, and indeed it was corrupt. There's the word "corrupt" again. For all flesh had corrupted their way on the earth. All flesh except for Noah, his three sons, their three wives, and Mrs. Noah. Eight people. Eight again is a number of new beginnings. God would begin a whole new earth, a whole new generation when Noah would come to the ark.

Look what he says, verse 12. And God looked upon the earth and indeed it was corrupt, for all the flesh was corrupted in this way on the earth. Then notice the third observation here, the ark of safety, verses 13 to 20. And God said to Noah, so now God speaks to Noah the righteous man, "The end of all flesh has come before me." Notice God says, "I'm fed up. Noah, I'm going to destroy everybody on the earth except for you and your children and your wife and their wives."

And this he says to them, "The end of all flesh has come before me, for the earth is filled with violence through them. And behold, I will destroy them with the earth. I'm going to make everybody drown in the flood. They're all going to die except for you." Verse 14, this is his command now. "Make an ark of gopher wood. Make rooms in the ark and cover its inside and outside with pitch." The word "pitch" here is in reference to covering the ark on the bottom so water would not seep in, but the word "pitch" also here is what Jesus Christ did with his blood. He covered us with his blood for our sins. The pitch symbolic of the blood of Christ here to cover the ark with pitch.

Then check this out, verse 15. "And this is how you're going to make it. The length of the ark shall be 450 feet long." Then notice, "And the width of it will be 150 feet, and the height of it 45 feet long." And then three stories high. It's going to be like a carrier ship, long. If you were to put in the ark right now, at this particular moment, you could actually put 522 railroad cars in the ark. 522. That's how big the ark was. Three stories high, one door, remember, and one window.

Jesus said what? "I am the door to the sheepfold." It's important that we understand that the way to heaven is very narrow, very straight, and very few people ever find it. So here God gives the dimensions to the ark. "Noah, I want you to build a three-story ark and long and then one window and you're going to open one door." What I love about this is later on we can see when finally Noah built the ark, remember what it says? "And the Lord shut them in."

He didn't close the door; God closed the door. The door to grace. God's long patience and longsuffering was ended. He closed the door and then what happened? The flood came. One of these days, the flood will come. God will judge, and he's going to judge righteously whatever he does. The reason is because he is a righteous God, a righteous God that loves this world. He's not willing that any should perish but all should come to repentance.

So then he says, verse 20, "Of the birds after their kind, of animals after their kind, and every creeping thing on the earth after its kind, two of every kind shall come with you to keep them alive. And you shall take for yourself of all the food that is eaten and you shall gather it to yourself, and it shall be food for you and for them." So God tells them, "This is what you're going to do. In order to survive 40 days and 40 nights, you're going to take these animals and you're going to take this kind of food and then you're going to be actually supplied for you so you can be taken care of, so that you'll never starve to death." God taking care of his people.

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Raul Ries: Watch this, verse 22. And thus Noah did according to all that God commanded him to do. What is that? Obedience to the word of God. Notice that. Obedience to what God said to do. I think of the people today in the world and the church that have children, they have grandchildren. Imagine if they don't see you sitting and reading your Bible and doing your devotions. Jesus said we are the salt of the earth. We are a light on the hill shining for people to see our lights.

Then why is it that the church has become so far away from the heart of God, when we should be building the ark? Not a real ark, but we should be beginning to wait for the coming of the Lord soon. We need to be right with God, just like Noah. But imagine how sad it will be if your sons and your daughters or your husband or your wife or anybody else in your family is left behind for this time that is coming upon the earth which is called the wrath of God. I am falling in love with you.

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